It might have been mistaken, by a casual listener, for the grunting and squealing of a herd of pigs.

They were grunting to one another, softly.

Then followed more of their horrible, grunting talk, and, whilst it lasted, I thought I distinguished the noise of fresh arrivals.

" That same evening, as they sat in the tent in an interval of relief from the Colonel's muttering monotone, they heard Nig making some sort of unusual manifestation outside; heard the grunting of those pioneer pigs; heard sounds of a whispered "Sh! Kaviak.

"Come, rouse thee, holy man!" cried he; whereupon, with much grunting, the stout Tuck got to his feet.

Yellow faces gleamed faintly, bare heads bobbed, and men set down burdens, grunting.

Rudolph obeyed, and, running at top speed, dimly understood that he had doubled round a squad of grunting runners, whose bare feet pattered close by him in the smoke.

"Steady, Mallows!" cried the captain, in a pause of the grunting machine-gun.

" The fierce metallic grunting had ceased, and her crew were straining and hauling at the breech.

He saw that the company was tired of my talk, which seemed to them mere grunting.

As Sofia and Victor entered one man dropped his weapon and, grunting, fell back from his window to nurse a shattered hand.

Only we shall have old HINDENBURG growling and grunting and looking as black as a thundercloud.

She was screaming in terror, and the Dummy, a giant in strength, was holding her and grunting his bestial laugh.

Mr. J. Couch, in an interesting paper on the fishes of Cornwall, has the following notes: "Ray observes that the word gurnard, which may be regarded as the English term, is derived a grunnitu, from grunting like a hog.

Lady Deppingham's pert little nose lifted itself in disgust as she was joggled through the town behind the grunting substitutes for horseflesh.

Progress was slower here than with the express wagon, or even the ice wagon; you had to do lots of backing, with much stern calling to the big horses, and often it took a long time to ease the big boxes to the sidewalktime and grunting exclamations.

We have once seen, with our own eyes, a very large unroasted "small pig" devour one of her own piglets, whilst the others lustily drew nourishment from the grunting mother.

She struggled indefatigably, grunting at each fresh effort, while through the flimsy partition the voice of the Caddles infant wailed.

The cows come trampling through the yard; the bull bellows in the meadow; great, grunting sows, savage when they have young, go by, thrusting their noses into and turning up the earth for food; steam ploughing engines pant and rumble about; carts are continually coming and going; and he is all day in the midst of it without guardian of any kind whatsoever.

The great bulls of the herd stood still and lifted their ears when they heard him grunting up the hill.

He was in the mud-bath, grunting and bubbling with content.

Of course, after a girl has spent a year of evenings listening to a fellow tell her that his great ambition is to make her life one grand, sweet song, it jars her to find the orchestra grunting and snoring over the sporting extra some night along six months after the ceremony.

Has the poet, for whom Nature means only roses and lilies, ever heard a pig grunting?

The keeper says to him, "Dance," and although he is about ten feet tall, he sits down with his scaly legs spread out on each side of him, and, shutting his eyes, he throws his long, ugly red neck from side to side, making a curious grunting noise, and waving his wings in billowy line like a skirt-dancer.

They are called the howling dervishes, but they do not howl; they only make a horrible grunting noise.